After enjoying all the scenery we made it to Portland Thursday afternoon. Jim brought his heavy duty battery charger and jump started Baby Car so we drove across Portland to the nearest Fiat dealer – 45 minutes away! Battery was replaced with a new one and we’re as good as new!

Friday we went downtown Portland. It is big and spread out. We went in the “Pearl District” and walked around some but ...

... the first glass, the food wasn’t there, after the second the food was still there, and after the third it started to rain so heavily that the streets became impossible to venture out onto, so we decided that we should just stay and wait the rain out….”waiter, more wine please!” So as we sat there, still laughing about our monkey business an impromptu ceremony happened before our eyes, the streets were temporarily suspended of all traffic and the locals, all dressed ...

... with the man who directed us the wrong way as part of my long-term, ongoing study to prove that people with no sense of direction are innately kind and thoughtful. We had booked in the UK to go on the optional excursion to Mount Hood, but were finding the "everybody back on the bus" routine a bit tiresome. We set off under our own steam today to explore Portland. We had decided on the Portland Museum of Art as our morning excursion, feeling in need of an ...